Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!potomac!jtn
From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: PCWeek on Mach
Message-ID: <7055@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 21 Oct 88 03:18:44 GMT
References: <12670003@eecs.nwu.edu> <25103@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: jtn@potomac.UUCP (John T. Nelson)
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington VA
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>	Other features include Mach (an operating system based on
>	Unix System V) ...


Sounds like a typical corporate knee-jerk to me.  "Oh, Unix is
synonymous with this thing called System V that AT&T wrote."

This is disturbing.  Large companies are making out as if Unix were
just another product developed in the labs of AT&T, IBM, DEC, HP, etc.
They've forgotten (or perhaps they want everyone else to forget) where
Unix's roots really are.

Ever wonder why you never see Richard Stallman or GNU mentioned in
these computer rags?  'Cause big companines have money and money buys
ad space and besides no one wants to hear about unreliable public
domain software that you can get for FREE...right?

> The part I thought was funny was where PC Week said the NeXT machine
> used an 80386.  Sheesh.

Sounds like another big company knee-jerk to me.  Everyone knows that
AIX and all the good versions of Unix run on 80386 boxes so they can
be MESSDOS compatible.

Down off my soapbox....



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